Taylor Swift stopped by The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon yesterday (October 6), making her first U.S. late-night look because the launch on Friday of The Lifetime of a Showgirl. Beneath, watch her break down the themes behind a number of of the album’s songs, together with an clarification of her much-maligned intercourse music “Wooden.” She additionally chats about her friendship with Selena Gomez, the final movie she noticed (“We’re so fortunate to be alive concurrently Paul Thomas Anderson,” she stated of One Battle After One other), and her engagement to Travis Kelce.
Swift additionally took the possibility to disclaim rumors that she turned down the Tremendous Bowl halftime present over a dispute about proudly owning the footage. “Jay-Z has at all times been excellent to me,” she defined, including that their enterprise groups are shut however there has not been “an official supply or a conference-room dialog.” She goes on, “We’re at all times capable of inform him the reality, which is that I’m in love with a man who does that sport on that precise area. Like, [football] is violent chess. That’s gladiators with out swords. That’s harmful…. Are you able to think about if he’s on the market each single week, placing his life on the road, doing this very harmful, very high-pressure, high-intensity sport, and I’m like, ‘I ponder what my choreo needs to be?”
The Lifetime of a Showgirl has already damaged the post-1991 U.S. report for probably the most vinyl copies offered in a single week—a report Swift herself set with 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division. The album is now vying for the general gross sales week report, a distinction lengthy held by Adele for 2015’s 25.
Over the weekend, Swift dropped a deluxe model of The Lifetime of a Showgirl, that includes acoustic variations and demos from the album, on iTunes. She additionally premiered the music video for opening observe “The Destiny of Ophelia” at screenings of The Official Launch Get together of a Showgirl, a theatrical launch that compiled collectively lyric movies and behind-the-scenes footage. Watch the video beneath.










